[ti:The Watcher 2] [ar:Jay-Z] [al:The Blueprint 2] [00:00.02]Jay-Z Feat. Dr. Dre, Rakim & Truth Hurts - The Watcher 2 [00:00.52] [00:03.25](Jay-Z:) [00:03.76]Jeah.. uhh.. it's what I do for a livin nigga [00:08.78] [00:20.53](Verse One: Jay-Z) [00:21.04]Things just ain't the same for gangsters [00:22.83]But I'm a little too famous to shoot these pranksters [00:25.20]All of these rap singers claimin they bangers [00:27.61]Doin all sorts of twisted shit with they fingers [00:30.04]Disrespectin the game, no home trainin or manners [00:32.45]I was doin this shit when you was shittin Pampers [00:34.91]I was movin them grams 'fore you, knew what a hand that hand was [00:37.74]Duckin the vans, radars, the scanners [00:39.69]'Fore you knew what hard white to tame was [00:42.17]I was hittin the turnpike, aight with the bammers [00:44.31]I was nice with my hands, cuss aight with them hammers [00:46.81]I was prickin my finger 'fore you knew what a Fam was [00:49.35]I had it laid out 'fore you knew what a plan was [00:51.91]Three hundred mill' later, now you understand us [00:54.14]Y'all ain't see us comin through Vegas [00:56.90]You ever seen so much cham' bust in one night [00:59.03]Grand fucked up one fight [00:59.85]I was on the Peter Pan bus [01:00.95]You was puttin Peter Pan up in your room, y'all fuckin with whom? [01:04.17]Allowed me to retort [01:06.02]You cowards is just now learnin the shit that we talk [01:08.64]You niggaz ain't know about a Robb Report [01:11.04]Bout a high speed Porsche, i.e. [01:13.84]You niggaz ain't know how to floss 'til I came through the door [01:15.94]like "Eric B. for Pres," respect me in this BITCH! [01:18.74]You can't disrespect us cause you got a little check cut [01:21.03]You was suckin for so long, fuckin your little neck up [01:23.46]Now you too big for your britches, you got a few little bitches [01:26.49]You think you Hugh Hefner, you just ridiculous [01:28.44]I blew breath for you midgets, I gave life to the game [01:31.01]It's only right I got the right to be king [01:33.03]Niggaz that got life really like what I sing [01:35.43]Cause they know is he really like, niggaz feel my pain [01:37.97]Know the shit I DON'T write be the illest shit that's ever been recited [01:40.44]in the game word to the hyphen in my NAME! [01:42.68]J, A, Y, DASH, Hoffa [01:45.41]The past present nigga the future, proper [01:47.78]The holy trinity of hip-hop is us [01:49.78]We give, Dre his props BUT that's where it stops [01:52.46]It's the Roc [01:52.96] [01:53.34](Chorus: Truth Hurts) [01:53.78]I know, you got your eyes on me [01:56.21]I feel you watchin me [01:59.28]But it ain't hard to see that you can't see me [02:02.35]You try, but what you think you saw [02:06.09]Ain't what you thought you saw [02:08.38]You bed-da off not lookin at all [02:10.96](Everywhere that I go, ain't the same as befo') [02:16.08](People I used to know, just don't know me no mo') [02:20.60](But everywhere that I go, I got people I know) [02:25.40](Who got people they know, so I suggest you lay low) [02:30.25] [02:30.70](Verse Two: Dr. Dre) [02:31.26]I'm still on top of the game [02:33.56]Still droppin flames, still cock and aim [02:36.23]Still at the top had the Roc for the fame [02:38.43]over setbacks, there's been a lot since I came [02:40.81]You seen it all, how I got, how I gained [02:43.35]The momentum when it dropped, how I got through the pain [02:45.75]When I roll and shock, they watched me reclaim [02:48.18]the streets, they made a special spot for my name [02:50.55]Dre, haters wanna stop to my reign [02:53.04]But the music lives in me, every drop in my veins [02:55.34]The pride and the pain [02:56.76]All the way back from the rise of my name [02:58.89]See the world clear through the eyes of the mane [03:01.20]See the world chear for the rhymes that I gave [03:03.91]When the beat bangs it'll drive them insane [03:06.27]The eyes that I played [03:07.52]The best to emerge in the game is The Watcher [03:09.84] [03:10.39](Chorus: Truth Hurts) [03:10.80]I know, you got your eyes on me [03:13.87]I feel you watchin me [03:16.59]But it ain't hard to see that you can't see me [03:19.91]You try, but what you think you saw [03:23.59]Ain't what you thought you saw [03:26.23]You bed-da off not lookin at all [03:29.43](Everywhere that I go, ain't the same as befo') [03:33.28](People I used to know, just don't know me no mo') [03:38.21](But everywhere that I go, I got people I know) [03:43.38](Who got people they know, so I suggest you lay low) [03:47.52] [03:48.06](Verse Three: Rakim) [03:48.63]I'm "Rated R," my brain contains graphics thangs [03:50.99]It turn traumatic teens into addicts, and fiends [03:54.16]It's like, watchin a movie through a panoramic screen [03:56.16]Which means, I can see the whole planet in the scene [03:58.48]Cash is the topic, the object, a fatter pocket [04:00.91]Some take the crack and chop it, but those that haven't got it [04:03.52]take away the added profit, it's catastrophic [04:05.44]I take the gat and cock it, and I'll sit back and watch it [04:08.14]These New York streets is ugly, I keep it gully [04:10.50]The world is mine and can't nobody keep it from me [04:12.89]Yo, my neighborhood is never sunny [04:14.72]In the place where the number one cause of death is money [04:17.60]You can try copin [04:19.45]I've seen enough shit to leave your frame of mind broken [04:21.42]I'm still alive and scopin [04:22.97]Be another hundred years 'til my skies close in [04:25.05] [04:33.40](Chorus: Truth Hurts) [04:33.90]I know, you got your eyes on me [04:36.66]I feel you watchin me [04:39.25]But it ain't hard to see that you can't see me [04:42.68]You try, but what you think you saw [04:46.10]Ain't what you thought you saw [04:48.76]You bed-da off not lookin at all [04:51.84](Everywhere that I go, ain't the same as befo') [04:55.76](People I used to know, just don't know me no mo') [05:00.83](But everywhere that I go, I got people I know) [05:05.55](Who got people they know, so I suggest you lay low) [05:10.41] [05:11.45]End [05:12.24] [05:13.02]Jay-Z Feat. Dr. Dre, Rakim & Truth Hurts - The Watcher 2 [05:25.52]